to enable the Commonwealth to recover the cost of membership fees to international commodity organisations and regional fisheries management organisations from the matching amounts paid to rural research and development corporations (RDCs);

Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997

,

Dairy Produce Act 1986

,

Forestry Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2007

and

Sugar Research and Development Services Act 2013

to remove the tabling requirements for certain documents; and

Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989

to remove the requirement for the minister to organise an annual co-ordination meeting for RDC chairs.

Part of a package of three bills to create the Australian Grape and Wine Authority, the bill: amends the:

Wine Australia Corporation Act 1980

to: implement the merger of the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation (GWRDC) and the Wine Australia Corporation to create the Australian Grape and Wine Authority; and rename the Act; and

Freedom of Information Act 1982

to make a consequential amendment; transfers the operations, assets, liabilities and staffing conditions of the GWRDC and the Wine Australia Corporation to the authority; and repeals the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation Regulations 1991.

Part of a package of three bills to create the Australian Grape and Wine Authority, the bill amends the

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999

to: enable levies collected to be paid to the Australian Grape and Wine Authority; and remove the requirement for the Wine Australia Corporation to make recommendations to the minister about the levy rate.

Part of a package of three bills to create the Australian Grape and Wine Authority, the bill amends the

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999

to: enable levies collected to be paid to the Australian Grape and Wine Authority; and remove the requirement for the Wine Australia Corporation to make recommendations to the minister about the levy rate.

Part of a package of three bills in relation to rural research and development, the bill amends the

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999

to: remove product specific maximum rates for research and development and marketing charge rates; standardise and clarify the industry bodies to be consulted before the minister sets new or changed rates; and provide that the maximum charge rate to be imposed is the rate requested by the charge payers.

Part of a package of three bills in relation to rural research and development, the bill amends the:

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999

to: remove product specific maximum levy rates for research and development and marketing levies; standardise and clarify the industry bodies to be consulted before the minister sets new or changed levies; provide that the maximum levy rate to be imposed is the rate requested by the levy payers; set the levy rate on sugar cane to 70 cents per tonne; and require the minister to take into account recommendations from the sugar industry services body on the rate of the levy on sugar cane in the absence of an industry organisation; and proposed

Sugar Research and Development Services (Consequential Amendments—Excise) Act 2013